The Acoustic Commons of the East Atlantic Flyway: Migratory songbirds arrive in Cloudesley Square - Performance Event
Saturday 26th April 2025
all welcome from 3pm for refreshments, with a 4pm start
The Writer's RoomHoly Trinity ChurchCloudesley SquareLondon N1 0HN
I will be offering a participatory performance that invites an encounter with an Italian folktale called “pizzica pizzica” or “bitten bitten”, and the myth of the spider women. The embodied journey weaves multispecies entanglements into the event’s theme of songbirds through the guided imagery of a spider weaving a web, prompting subtle somatic movement. The experience will be followed by a spoken word piece evoking a polyvocal storytelling of migration.
Performers:
Melissa Alley
Remiiya Badru
Fabienne Formosa
Iris Garrelfs
Shauna Laurel Jones
Caroline Kennedy
Dr Yẹ́wándé Òkùlẹ́yẹ
Catherine Clover
Seven writers, artists and musicians will join resident Catherine Clover with their sound/walking/writing/performance practices that lend themselves to an improvisation around the complex lives of the wild birds that live around us in our cities, specifically the return of the passage migrants during April/May along their north/south route known as the East Atlantic Flyway.
With reference to the concept of the Acoustic Commons, the sharing of sound, the event considers what sounds and songs belong to us all, and to all species, fairly and equally; songs which unify across geographies and landscapes through interspecies cohabitation, city-making practices, improvisation, experimentation.